Pharr, Texas
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Tejano singer Bobby Pulido will win the Democratic primary for Texas’ 15th Congressional District, NCS projects, defeating emergency room doctor Ada Cuellar.
Pulido will face two-term GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz in November in his bid to flip management of a deeply Republican district.
National Democrats view Pulido, the son of a migrant farm employee turned Latin Grammy Award-winning artist, as giving them their finest shot at competing within the seat as a result of his fame and his socially conservative profile.
“We’ve been getting our butts kicked for a long time. And we have to find out why that is,” Pulido informed NCS. “And there’s a lot of people that we’ve got to go bring back.”
Cuellar, who campaigned with Democratic Senate candidate Jasmine Crockett, painted Pulido because the institution’s decide and blasted him over his private opposition to abortion. Pulido has stated that he doesn’t assist the state’s near-total abortion ban.
The district, a roughly 250-mile-long strip that stretches from outdoors San Antonio all the way down to the US border with Mexico, was redrawn final 12 months by Texas Republicans as a part of a push to internet the social gathering as many as 5 further US House seats.
That new map depends closely on retaining good points the GOP has made with Latino voters. President Donald Trump would have received the district on its present traces by 18 proportion factors in 2024.
“As Latinos, what unites us all is that many of us come from humble beginnings,” Pulido informed NCS. “Hispanics, they want this: They want to be able to work hard and be rewarded by that hard work. And when you take away from that opportunity, that used to be promised to everybody in this country, they get mad. And that’s what you’re going to be seeing.”